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And no, we’re not just talking about the recent, very recent, Zogby poll showing McCain/Palin ahead 48-47 in their latest one-day poll, even though that in itself might be reason enough for the exclamation marks.
We keep telling you: THIS AIN’T OVER.
Unless you decide to let the Eeyores convince you that it is. In which case the Obamamedia really ought to cut you a check for doing their work for them.
Yes, it’s Zogby. We know, we know. But don’t you think that it is at least a little bit newsworthy that, whereas all of the “tingles up and down our legs” Obamamedia polls predict a Reaganesque landslide of truly biblical proportions for their Messiah, this poll comes out with McCain/Palin leading?
Especially when you consider that all of the at least marginally reputable polls have shown a marked tightening of the gap over the last week or so?
But if that’s not enough to get you off suicide watch, we want to share something with you that was sent to us by LC & IB Rurik.
Remember how we’ve told you time and time again that the only polls you can even remotely trust are the campaigns’ internal polls? For the very simple reason that those internal pollsters have absolutely no agenda other than finding out what’s really going on in order to know what they should be doing next. Those pollsters, while certainly plagued by the same unknowns that every other pollster in history have had to deal with, have to get the right numbers or they could cause their campaigns to lose the election.
Ever wondered why both campaigns are investing heavily into, say, Pennsylvania, one of the states that, according to the Eeyoremedia, is going to go fully in the tank for the Obaminable Blowman to the tune of 127% voting for him and -7,443% voting for McCain/Palin? What? You think they like throwing money into already settled races, especially with so many much tighter races to choose from?
C’mon. Even Obambi isn’t daft enough to throw money into a race he’s leading by double digits and McCain/Palin, being considerably more strapped for cash since he hasn’t committed massive election fraud by deliberately turning off basic security features in order to get donations from various caves in Pakistan, certainly isn’t about to.
So, again: The only polls we’ve ever been interested in seeing were the internals, and neither campaign is particularly forthcoming with sharing those.
Until now. Apparently the people at the Quinn and Rose show have a contact in the Republican camp who is willing to share. Yes. the internal numbers.
A warning: When we checked out that link, it loaded horrendously slowly. But if you want a quick summary, here it is:
New Jersey: McCain 48% - Obambi 43% - Undecided 7%, undecideds currently breaking 4 to 1 for McCain.
Have you put the razor down yet?
Michigan, the state that the McCain campaign hasn’t put much of an effort in at all, thinking it already lost: McCain 44% - Obambi 42% - Undecided 10%
OK, now here’s the bad news. There’s a state where Obambi leads.
California: Obambi 44% - McCain 43% - Undecided 9%.
People, if Dear Leader isn’t landsliding by double digits in the People’s Socialist Republic of Kalifornikate??? We rest our case.
Oh, and the state we mentioned before that Obambi is supposedly going to carry in a double-digit clobbering, yet for some reason he is focusing a LOT of effort in?
Pennsylvania: McCain 55% - Obambi 33% - Undecideds 10%
We guess they really don’t like being called racist, redneck, bitter, gun and bible-clinging xenophobes after all. Imagine our surprise.
Number one reason among Democrats breaking for McCain? They’re pissed off that he’s cheating and trying to buy the election.
And that’s all from the horse’s mouth, pollsters who have absolutely zero interest in being wrong and who will most likely never work again if they are, so it’s safe to assume that they’re working their little butts off overtime trying to identify and eliminate whatever unknowns they can find. And we can guarantee you that those are the same numbers staring the Obamessiah in the face from his internal pollsters, because they’re operating under the same conditions.
Which would go a long way towards explaining why he’s been so pissy and irritable as of late, kicking reporters from newspapers whose only offense has been not endorsing him and generally being a whiny little pissant.
“But… but… but… HOW? Surely all of those other polls realize that it’s not a Good Thing to be caught being stupid either? They have to work for the rest of the time between now and the next election.”
Yes, they do. So you should expect a lot of polls looking like Zogby’s over the weekend. Which is why we sort of think that Zogby is on the ball here. Say anything you like about him, but he’s a businessman and a very shrewd one at that. We wouldn’t be at all surprised for him to be ahead of the game here. And the rest will follow.
And, of course, Keith Olberdouche will, once again, be curled up in the fetal position under his desk Tuesday night.
Of course, this could all be crap, but we don’t think so. Because this Impending Avalanche of Inevitable Obamania™ just isn’t evident anywhere. And American voters aren’t even close to being as dense as Dear Leader and his Obamamedia think that they are. This is the home stretch and this is when the majority of voters, the bloc that matters in the final tally, start paying attention.
How about some anecdotal evidence, but we’re sure that you can tell us similar stories. Still, the plural of “anecdote” isn’t “evidence”, but it’s something we’ve noticed.
During the 2004 season, when there wasn’t nearly the amount of Democrat enthusiasm that we allegedly have now, we saw plenty of Kerry/Edwards stickers and signs. Not a sea of them, but this is Texas. There was no shortage of them. We couldn’t leave the house without seeing at least half a dozen vehicles sporting a Fuckface/Silky Pony sticker.
This year, when the Obamamedia claims that the entire nation, all 57 states, are awash with yearning and desire for Hope and Change™, on the other hand?
We have counted two stickers and not one sign with Obameinführer/Hairplugs on them. Two and none, respectively. Over the entire season.
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: The Obamamedia are deliberately engaging in psyops. They want to, they NEED to convince you that the race is all over, that it’s a foregone conclusion, because then there’s a good chance that any among you leaning McCain but not all that fired up about it will just take the day off.
So get out the bloody vote. Not so much you Rotties, we know you’re going to vote anyway, but we’re sure there are friends and family of yours that belong to that “we’ll vote if it’ll make a difference” group.
It WILL make a difference. It IS making a difference. And if those people don’t vote, there are going to be a whole lot of really nasty differences happening to our beloved nation. So get them to the polling place. Offer them lunch afterwards if you need to, offer to mow their lawns, offer to have their babies (OK, not if they’re family, that’s just too weird), but get them to fucking VOTE.
Don’t do PMSNBC’s work for them.
For fuck’s sakes. You withstood almost five decades of Soviet propaganda. Surely you’re not going to let yourselves or anybody you know cave in to the propaganda of the New York Times?
VOTE!!!
Thatisall.
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Ya think maybe his illegal alien auntie living in the welfare housing of Boston who has managed to make regular contributions (260.00 that is known) to BHO’s campaign might be a factor? Especially when he wrote in ‘ Dreams From My Father’ that he was now ‘ responsible for auntie whatshername’?
November 1st, 2008 at 1:50 AMUsing
This is heartening beyond the numbers provided, as all polls, without exception, oversample partisan Democrats. They can’t help it; Democrats are both more available to pollsters and more willing to provide a response. So it’s likely that McCain/Palin are ahead by 3 to 7 percent more than the polls report.
DJ Drummond at Wizbang! has done some terrific posts about the polling process and its unreliability in this season. Anyone who’d like to get a peek into the guts of polling and its inherent uncertainties should have a look at his work.
But remember, sports fans: McCain is not a conservative. If we manage to install him in the White House, we’ll acquire thereby a responsibility to curb his statist tendencies. Upon an election victory, our work will not have ended; it will have just begun.
November 1st, 2008 at 4:30 AMUsing
Misha, the wife and I voted yesterday. Stood in line for almost an hour. Then went shopping and saw SEVERAL McCain/Palin shirts, not one Omama….actually had to smile. :em69:
November 1st, 2008 at 5:07 AMUsing
Fight the POWER-I will make sure I vote on tues-EVERY VOTE COUNTS :em04:
November 1st, 2008 at 5:26 AMUsing
I have had the pleasure of listening to Quinn and Rose since 1997.
If they say it, it is 99 and 94/100 % true.
I’m still worried about the illegal voting, however, a lot of real people are being put off by the Obama the Magic Communist.
November 1st, 2008 at 6:05 AMUsing
tradewind-
We all have nutty relations that we must tell never to speak with the media and the ones we lock in a basement closet, feed croutons and hose down with the garden hose. It’s about change, dude. Like, for example medical costs are staggering. So when Australia wants a doctor for them rednecks
that cling to their Bibles and their guns…. OK so I went too far.. What would Obama do if, say, on one hand you need a doctor to administerfreehealth care and on the other the doctors son was diagnosed as having Down’s?Why, that is simple. Deny them permanent residence.
Socialism is like a giant homeowner’s association run by idiotarians.
November 1st, 2008 at 6:21 AMUsing
I would prefer that KO would be set on fire, preferrably by himself, on live TV.
That’s entertainment.
November 1st, 2008 at 6:36 AMUsing
Even if Obama wern’t a communist slime ball he would need to be ahead by 8 points to beat the Bradley/Wilder effect. I have forgetten how much Wilder was ahead by in VA in ‘89 but he squeaked by and screwed us with one gun a month. I am sad to say as an 20 year old fool I voted for him. I have spent the last 20 years trying to make up for it. As a communist slimeball he may just roll California and New York to the light one lasttime. The west is gone once McCain pushs thru with legalizing every fucking Mexican he can get papers for. Once there are 20 million more Mexicans voting well now Hilary will be in no problem in ‘12. So if we stop the Kenyan Communist we are still screwed. But we do buy 4 more years to get ready! So vote for McCain and hope he has cancer and dies ASAP. We get Palin then Jindall. We win. Well if we can turn congress back but the only way to do that would be if the Bamster wins. So we lose. Great situation huh.
November 1st, 2008 at 7:41 AMJust heard on the news Justice is looking into Dodd. Frank may be next. Oh let it be true.
Oh and let’s all hope the income tax goes down in MA that would be great.
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Here in North Looosiana I really haven’t seen that many Obambi signs or bumper stickers, which considering the black population around here (60% Black vs 40% White/ Hispanic) you would think we would be snowed under. I don’t know much about Shreveport, since we only cross the river when necessary, but I find it rather odd that support for Teh One™ isn’t more blatantly obvious. I’m sure he’ll get a good chunk of the vote, but after the kick ass election of Jindal, Democrats are no longer guaranteed a win around here. Hell even Mary Moonbat Landrieu is working her ass off just to get re-elected, and having a shitty time of it. Even if Obambi takes Louisiana, it will be comforting to have Landrieu out on her ass and in the unemployment line.
November 1st, 2008 at 8:02 AMUsing
It ain’t over til it’s over. VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
fporretto sez:
HIS feet, however, we can hold to the fire. TEH OBAMESSIAH will insist on the “fairness doctrine”, we can’t say squat. If we even know it’s coming.
mindy1 sez:
YES IT DOES!
glad777 sez:
Ah! Don’t forget, there are a certain MASSIVE group in Kahlifohnya that will not vote for such as TEH ONE. Won’t mention why. :em02:
November 1st, 2008 at 8:51 AMUsing
the internal Republican #s made my day. but we need to keep the momentum going. now is not the time for “overconfidence.” PENNSYLVANIA is key. please donate to William Russell R-PA as well at http://www.williamrussellforcongress.com/ , and get that commie slimeball Murtha kicked out of Congress for good. this was not even supposed to be a contest, now it’s gonna be nailbitingly close. with all of our support, it can and WILL be done!!
good point above about the job only beginning with McCain getting into office. kick out all the illegals, starting with That One, the obaminable blowman D-IL back to whereever the hell he is actually from. make sure McCain puts the right people into the right positions to set this country back on the right track. we have to get people to cease watching CBS, NBC, etc. these companies are becoming irrelevant and knuckling under. NY Times’s debt is now junk bond status. Drudge has been blowing away NY Times online, which is teetering and may fold. CBS is hemorraghing its commie RED blood. when McCain WINS, it will exposed just how corrupt these organizations are and how worthless their “reporting” is. it is true, a McCain win would only be the BEGINNING. without the win, it is going to be HELL in this country, with the most radical leftist shift ever happening to this great country. think of what a country run by Code Pink, Nat’l Endowment for the Arts and PETA would be like…. horrors!!!
November 1st, 2008 at 8:52 AMUsing
LC Mrs. M-ITT™-Imperial Sniper sez:
Obviously some people down there (unlike far too much of the lamestream mediots and the rest of the libtard side of the country) know who REALLY was to blame for Katrina. I’m not really surprised. I always figured one good and major crisis is enough to wake most people up (for awhile at least)… took about 50 years but seems like it’s finally happened.
RH
November 1st, 2008 at 9:04 AMUsing
I can’t see the Hispanic vote going for the chozen wun. Generally, the two races hate each other.
November 1st, 2008 at 10:40 AMUsing
OT, but talk about invasion of privacy! Let’s see our resident apologist defend this:
Newspaper prints address of houses with Republican signs
Whine all you want, Dave, about how if they didn’t want their address published, then they shouldn’t have put up the signs. Where are all the houses with the Democrat signs?
November 1st, 2008 at 10:48 AMUsing
@ fporretto:
It is always of interest to me how people view voting as the LAST step of the cycle, when in truth it is the FIRST step. Once the election is over, it is OUR responsibility to make sure the politician in office works for us, and not for some other speacial interest. Unfortunately, there are some people whose only interest is to get “their guy” elected, regardless of consequences. I suppose they have forgotten we the people take care of the government, and that the government isn’t supposed to take care of us.
November 1st, 2008 at 10:53 AMUsing
I know it doesn’t mean shit but or poll in our fantasy football league is 67% McCain 33% Obama with 3 undecided
Just trowing that out there.
November 1st, 2008 at 11:01 AMUsing
@ LC SkyeChild G.L.O.R., Imperial Grammar Hun:
Well, normally I would agree with you on the Hispanic/ Black dynamic. Living here in South Texas, though, I see a lot of “party first” dogma. Most of the Obama supporters tend to be younger generation Hispanics, and older, retired Hispanics. I have noticed, however, that the Business Class Hispanic tends to gravitate for McCain.
As for your second post about the Republicans addresses….. Seattle….Why am I not surprised? I did take time to read the comments, and found a great deal of them were condemning the act. There was one that did make me sputter: he claimed ACORN was a legit enterprise that posed no threat to the voting system, but the REPUBLICAN-OWNED DIEBOLD MACHINES were a big threat, and we should look at the mess Ken Blackwell and Katherine Harris (her name was misspelled, btw) made of the vote last two election cycles….. :em01: :em01: :em01:
November 1st, 2008 at 11:05 AMUsing
Just got back from early voting in piedmont NC, next door to the People’s Republic of CHapel Hill. Only waited in line for 18 minutes, and I was voter #16451 in my precinct. I believe the good turnout favors Mac and Sarah. Unfortunately, some of these folks are running with no opposition; when I come to those spots on the ballot, I don’t even bother making a mark. We’ve got a one-party system in my county.
November 1st, 2008 at 11:07 AMUsing
Yet the Obamedia keep trying a losing play.
http://news.yahoo.co.....r-emotions
Glum? I think not. :em03:
November 1st, 2008 at 11:36 AMUsing
Chin up, goggles on and fire up the old Hawker Siddley…. on my daily commute (75MI R/T) I am taking a poll of the number of Obambi versus McCain signs along the routes. They are running about 4 to 1 in favor of McCain…..except in proximity to Notre Dame which I pass daily heading North.
Surrounding NDU they are almost 100% Obambi. If that is not proof of what academe is doing to your precious kids, I don’t know what is. Take heart, I think that the micron thin centrist veneer and all the attempts at hiding his true nature are falling away and the folks are seeing what he really is.
The Media whitwash is so overpowering that even a blind man can see what is happening. I don’t know about “gut” feelings but it is looking like the old geezer may pull this off. Plan to vote at 7 AM tuesday on the way in to work. The length of the line at my polling station will be another indicator of turnout.
I would tell you all to vote early and vote often, but that is what Acorn does and this Rott crowd shoots straight, not bent. I will break out the 50 year single malt
November 1st, 2008 at 11:46 AMifwhen Obambi loses!!Using
Terrapod sez:
Thankfully, the AkadamiedemeinFurher is going to have to try much harder to ever convince me.
Oh and noticed that article, the demotivational stuff has started.
November 1st, 2008 at 12:32 PMUsing
Remembre the proverb. If an advance is proceding too successfully, it is moving into an ambush.
November 1st, 2008 at 12:41 PMUsing
glad777 sez:
NOT LIKELY. 0bama would pardon them, or shut down the case completely
November 1st, 2008 at 12:44 PMUsing
For the curious and observant, if any. I have sent my reguar avatar off to the avatar laundry and brought out my alternate, formal avatar in obsrvance of the imminent struggle. Princess Natasha and Niicki might recognize this guy. He is not just any ordinary Saint George. He is the Russkii version, known as Saint Georgii The Victory Bringer. The little hairy, pagan pillager may return when he has been properly cleaned and pressed.
November 1st, 2008 at 12:58 PMUsing
SkyeChild sez:
I went to the link and found out that I know the family who resides in one of those houses on Mercer Island. the father coached baseball with me years ago and we still send Christmas cards to each other. I sent him the link to the article. I also posted a comment to The Stranger calling them Hitleresque in their inciting of hate crimes.
One thing about The Stranger…..it’s a local “alternative” free newspaper. Their main claim to fame is that they have a columnist/editor named Dan Savage who is a powerful local gay rights advocate. He writes a column called Hey Faggot where he answers readers questions about all things gay. Funny thing though, is that Savage has called a lot of local politicians on the floor for their mismanagement and corruption….going where the lapdog media in Seattle fear to tread. Too bad they did this, they were just starting to gain some credibility for their investigative reporting in this town…..too bad they decided to crawl back into the unflushed toilet
November 1st, 2008 at 1:08 PMUsing
Best Eeyore voice:
Well, that’s good news if it’s true, which I doubt. McCain leading by 20 in PA? Leading in CA where a republican hasn’t been within 20% since 88? Those don’t pass the laugh test. I think someone is punking us. It wouldn’t surprise me if they were lie leaked by the Obama campaign to try to get another wave of illegal votes in.
The truth is probably a lot closer to Zogby’s numbers. All we can do is VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! I early voted on Friday. I went in and it was wall to wall black people, many voting for the first time. I heard them say that. No one knows what the future holds. It all boils down to getting your vote out.
Get out there!
November 1st, 2008 at 1:37 PMUsing
Vote early, and vote often! If the other side can stuff the ballot boxes, so should WE.
November 1st, 2008 at 1:50 PMUsing
themandownthehall sez:
I won’t pretend that I’m not skeptical myself. Besides, he’s behind in CA by 1, but that doesn’t make it any less… interesting.
But my bottom line is the same as yours: the polls don’t matter. Only the one taken by ballot on Tuesday matters, so get out there. Don’t let either pessimism or optimism keep you or anybody you know at home. Vote. Or else.
On a side note about polls, I’m just throwing shit up here but I got to thinking about it last night: We’ve all learned by now that crossing the Obamarx and his Obamedia can have serious consequences. Just ask Joe the Plumber, among others. Ask the talk show hosts receiving death threats for allowing the opposition to speak. Ask the press thrown off Obambi’s plane because their papers didn’t endorse him. Ask the polling agency that got death threats for publishing numbers that weren’t in agreement with the Approved Obamedia Narrative. Ask the guy who had his house firebombed because he had a McCain/Palin sign in the front yard. Ask the old guy who was thrown on a fire hydrant and hospitalized yesterday by a rabid Obamabot because he had a McCain/Palin sign. Etc. etc. etc.
What I’m saying is, I very much doubt that the general population is unaware of the fanatical, irrational hatred of the opposition displayed by the O-bots this season.
So when your phone rings and you find yourself on the line with a pollster asking you who you’re going to vote for, how likely is it that the guy polled has a fleeting “these guys have my phone number” moment before answering?
Just a thought.
November 1st, 2008 at 1:50 PMUsing
outraged sez:
Most certainly. And again, McCain’s feet we can hold to the fire. See my post above.
Emperor Misha I sez:
They can have a conversation with my partner “Sam”. Sam Colt, remember him? Actually, one of his illegitimate children fathered by JMB (PBUH).
November 1st, 2008 at 3:42 PMUsing
If New Jersey votes for McCain, I think it is safe to take them off the Axis of Idiocy List.
November 1st, 2008 at 6:48 PMUsing
I’ll let you in on a little secret….Kalifornia is not entirely in Obama’s camp. Not even close. I believe a majority, to be sure, but not a large one. People here are big time polarized, hostile to one another and generally unsure and pissed off. It’s tense…..the shitties break for Obama…but nobody else. Unfortunately the cities is where the votes are. I’m not talking about the crazies in Ess Eff, I speak more of the lefty mentality infecting heavily populated areas. But out there in the sticks……Nobama! win or lose this country is divided and will remain that way, with my blessing I might add…….given that choice or submission. And gun sales are quite brisk here…… :em96: :em93:
November 1st, 2008 at 7:05 PMUsing
Local intelligence reports that a majority of college obamoids who came to Mizzou2Columbia yesterday caravanned up to 600 miles to get their messianic feely fix. Reminds me of the Doomies in Conan the barbarian.
November 1st, 2008 at 7:07 PMUsing
If you want the most bang for your buck, donate here tonight.
http://www.nationalrepublicantrust.com/
They are flooding the NFL telecasts in battleground states tomorrow and Monday. :em69:
November 1st, 2008 at 7:42 PMUsing
The Weekend NOBama Blitz!…
Okay people - this is the last weekend before Super Tuesday - In an effort to help some of those independents out there to make up their minds - and for some of our liberal readers who still think Obama can walk on water - or as one of my commentors, T…
November 1st, 2008 at 8:11 PMUsing
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November 1st, 2008 at 8:14 PMUsing
I did a post today on the lack of campaign signs, if anyone is interested.
The long and short of it is, that I work in a very liberal area, where in 2004 I saw nothing by Kerry buttons, shirts, signs, stickers, and hats.
This year, nearly nada. No Obama hats, just a couple of shirts, and a few buttons.
November 1st, 2008 at 8:20 PMUsing
I’m in Moscow-on-the-Colorado and the Obama bumper stickers are prevalent here. There are a few McCain stickers. The McCain billboards are everywhere though. That is, “Re-elect Constable McCain”. Every good spot is covered with local races. Even the lawn care people are putting up political looking signs.
November 1st, 2008 at 9:11 PMUsing
The Yard Signs in Seattle?
Wasn’t Mercer Island the Commie island where Stanley Ann Dunham grew up? :em95: An evil place. :em96:
As for Seattle. and the surrounding area. That is also the lurking ground of nationaly recognized IVAW member, Wobbly and general :em72: head Evan Knappenberger. He is the IVAW member who made public threats to kill Michelle Malkin, and also against the members of Gathering of Eagles and Eagles UP!, which includes me. So I’m on his list, and he’s on mine. My pet name for the shit-fro-brains is the Knappie-Headed-Ho. He already has a police record and I not yet.
November 1st, 2008 at 11:02 PMThe area is a general hotbed of violent anti-Americanism, and there has been an epidemic of assaults on soldiers traveling off-base from Fort Lewis, either in uniform, or otherwise military-looking but dressed in civvies. As I remember, the area has a radical tradition going back to the beginning of hte previous century.
Wondrful fresh salmon, excellent wines, and execrable people. Western Washingon needs to be be cleansed and then resettled. :em96:
Oops? You say that Micro :em72: is out there? :em98: Too bad. That counts as somewhere between collateral damage and a twoofer.
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For those of you who want to take a look, here’s how major media pollsters like CBS News do it in order to give Obama a huge 13 pointish lead.
http://www.realclear.....a-225.html
http://www.cbsnews.c.....turday.pdf
The sample is found on the last page. Here’s what it shows:
EARLY VOTERS CHOOSE BARACK OBAMA
October 28-31, 2008
………………………………………..UNWEIGHTED………WEIGHTED
Total Respondents: 1120
Total Registered Voters:…………..989……………………..919
Republicans – Reg. voters…………301……………………..254
Democrats – Reg. Voters…………..363……………………..375
Independents – Reg. Voters………325……………………..291
Effective Likely Voters 747
Unweighted: Democrats polled: 363 - Republicans polled: 301 = a difference of: 62
Weighted: Democrats polled: 375 - Republicans polled: 254 = a difference of: 121
What’s the Unweighted/Weighted Swing?
Democrats: Unweighted: 363 Weighted: 375 = +12
Republicans: Unweighted: 301 Weighted: 254 = -47
Total Number of Registered voters in both main parties in the sample:
Unweighted: 363 Dems + 301 Repubs = 664
Weighted: 375 Dems + 254 Repubs = 629
What % of 664 is 62? 664 x 9.4% = 62.4.
A 9.4% advantage to the Dem’s which, if most pollsters are to be believed, isnt’ that far off from the 5%-9% edge most give them.
How about the weighted sample though, the one who’s results figure much more heavily into the polls final results?
What % of 629 is 121? 629 x 19.3% = 121.3
Note that once again CBS News’ poll has taken the unusual step of having more WEIGHTED DEMOCRATS than UNWEIGHTED Democrats in it’s sample. They add +12 Democrats to the weighted sample while dropping -47 of Republicans, a skewing of 59.
There you go folks. That’s how it’s done. Kinda like watching sausage being made, isn’t it?
November 1st, 2008 at 11:37 PMUsing
While doing my honeydo list today, I was traveling down 183rd Street, some of the bluest territory in one of the bluest states.
3 miles, 2 Obama signs, 2 wassisface signs.
Kept traveling to Glenwood-Dyer Road. 1 Obama sign and 1 wassisface sign. In the same place.
Right in front of the Communication Workers Union building.
I guess some union workers are hedging their bets.
November 2nd, 2008 at 2:56 AMUsing
Hey, the liberal media lackeys aren’t going to say anything bad about their pimp, the Great Anointed Emperor now, are they?
November 2nd, 2008 at 6:35 AMUsing
manofaiki
Hopefully, we can finally drive a stake thru the heart of these 60’s radicals once and for all. They want change but it is us they want to change not themselves. I suspect these polls are going to be used as a casus belli for their whining temper tantrums after they lose decisively. We have the opportunity to toss these neo-radicals and the main-stream media under the Obama bus and into the ash heap of history forever.
Every election cycle is the same with these neo-radical leftists. Can’t they come up with something original?
November 2nd, 2008 at 8:12 AMUsing
Speaking of signage, Mom was telling me about a bunch of signs she saw yesterday that seemed to be taped over other signs, saying basically that it was time to vote for someone other than Whazisface or Obamaarx based, at least partly, on the fact that both voted for the massive baleout. I agree the baleout was a bad idea, and that our two main candidates are mediocre at best, but I seriously doubt enough random voters are with me on the urge to find a better third candidate to actually do more than guarantee an Obamarx win. I’d already voted for Whazisface anyway, so no matter how much I agreed with the message on the signs, there was nothing to be done about it.
I ride a commuting vanpool to work in the state capital and it is, as you might expect, full of Obama supporters, who take every opportunity to booh, hiss at and mock McCain signs when we pass them. Of course, if there’s an Obamarx sign along the route, they don’t say anything about it. Most of the people on the van are govco employees. One is such a big Obamarx supporter that we’ve all just taken to calling her “Obama”. Their biggest reason for supporting Obamarx, at least the first one they all seem to mention, is that he’s got to be better than… say it with me now … Four More Years of Bush Policies. How very predictable. The one we nicknamed “Obama” tells me that if I looked at the issues, I’d support Obama, too, and mutters comments about people who lean a certain way on certain political issues being racists. She even made a comment about how there were no blacks at the Republican convention a couple months ago.
Needless to say, I try not to say much when the subject of politics comes up. Does no good to argue with liberals or worse yet, those severely afflicted with BDS. Sorry for the ramble.
November 2nd, 2008 at 8:15 AMUsing
She obviously didn’t see it then, or she would have seen plenty of them there, not to mention Michael Steele giving a speech on stage. He’s blacker than Obambi, and a hell of alot more intelligent, honest, a much better speaker, and better looking. The Blacks turned their back on him simply because he was conservative. What does it say about them when they scream racism at us about half-white Obambi, when they will crucify a black man who strays off the Democrat Plantation and chooses not to be a victim?
Come to think of it, wouldn’t Palin/Steele be a kick ass ticket in 2012?
November 2nd, 2008 at 10:43 AMUsing